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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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General Atomics announces breeding blanket test facility
General Atomics announced it is developing design concepts in collaboration with the Department of Energy for the Fusion Blanket Component Test Facility (BCTF), which will test full-scale breeding blankets.
“No one has tested a fusion blanket at this scale. While there are more research and development challenges ahead, a BCTF brings us closer to turning fusion from proven science into practical, sustainable power,” said Anantha Krishnan, senior vice president of the General Atomics Energy Group.
Technical Session|Sponsored by RPD
Wednesday, June 18, 2025|8:00–9:45AM CDT|Belmont
Session Chair:
Nicolas E. Stauff
Alternate Chair:
Pavel V. Tsvetkov
Session Organizer:
Zeyun Wu
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PyARC Status Update: Recent Enhancements to a User-Friendly Open-Source Reactor Physics Framework for Fast Reactor Design and Analysis
8:00–8:20AM CDT
Kalin Kiesling (ANL), Shikhar Kumar (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL)
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Depletion Benchmark Analysis on a Lead Fast Reactor Using PyARC/OpenMC
8:20–8:40AM CDT
Kalin Kiesling (ANL), Nicolas E. Stauff (ANL), Fausto Franceschini (Westinghouse Electric Co.), Alex Levinsky (LANL)
Threading Efforts on DIF3D-VARIANT
8:40–9:00AM CDT
Micheal A. Smith (ANL)
A Bowing Reactivity Worth Capability Available in PERSENT
9:00–9:20AM CDT
Zero Power Reactor Database Hosted at Argonne National Laboratory
9:20–9:40AM CDT
Micheal A. Smith (ANL), Richard M. Lell (ANL), Aaron Oaks (ANL)